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Resting ground links veterans with POW camp history
In El Reno Oklahoma agronomists tend land near worn headstones within a low stone wall. Civil War and Indian War graves sit beside markers for German and Italian POWs who died at the old Fort Reno camp in World War II. Seventy prisoners died there, mostly from illness, and relatives rarely visit or seek repatriation. Local historian Ray Dyer recalls the arrival and departure of the POWs as trains carried them away after the war. The fort lies about 25 miles west of modern Oklahoma City.
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